Hey
DD is eight. She's very much into all things magical and has an imaginary fairy as a best friend, at one point she had six imaginary friends. Anyway, she uses her fairy as therapy, and because we have had some concerns about her we have, in the past, encouraged her to write her worries to her fairy. Her letters have tailed off a little recently; she caught dh in her room taking a letter which we lied our way out of quite ingeniously! We felt like we had to. DD was distraught and, from her actions, it was almost like if we acknowledged that we were the imaginary friend then dd would no longer write and she simply wouldn't know how to survive reality without her coping mechanism. She needs a place to escape and needed us to validate that space...
DD just lost a tooth and she wrote a letter to the tooth fairy asking her to give the money to charity but asked her to leave her a letter, 'but only if it's not too much trouble'. Tonight we just left money, but I don't know if that was the right thing to do. I feel like we need to stop encouraging her reliance on a parallel fairy world, but don't want to shatter her dreams and potentially cause her to have a mini breakdown. How/When should I handle this? DD's just been grade skipped, and although she's only eight, some of the kids in her class will be eleven. Any tips? Should I just give it time?
K x
